Both worlds are like dreams

The town was not big, and Xue Huang walked through most of it in a short while, but she had no appetite for anything.

Finally, she found a small shop in a corner. The shop made all kinds of food with fruits, including sour plum soup, which attracted Xuehuang unconsciously.

However, there were not many customers in his shop. When she walked in, the owner warmly invited her to sit down.

Xue Huang sat down and tasted a bowl of snow pear and white fungus soup, as well as his purple sweet potato pancakes, which tasted soft, sticky and sweet.

She liked the sour plum soup the most and drank several bowls of it without realizing it.

The store also gave her strawberry sorbet, grape drink, almond cheese, and white peach glutinous rice cakes shaped like little rabbits.

Xue Huang ate to her satisfaction and threw down a heavy ingot of silver before leaving. However, as soon as she turned out of the alley, she saw Mo Yunchen who looked hurried.

When he saw Xue Huang, he was obviously stunned, then he quickened his pace and came to her.

Without saying a word, he took her pulse and was relieved to find out that she had not taken any abortion drugs.

But then he held her in his arms.

"Your pulse is false. You are not pregnant. You don't need to take any abortion medicine. It will harm your body."

"I know." Xue Huang said lightly.

Mo Yunchen sighed, "Wei Xuehuang, you are really the coldest and most heartless person in the world, but I still can't do anything about you."

Xue Huang stretched out her hand and pushed him away, "I'm tired, let's go back."

Mo Yunchen looked at her, said nothing in the end, and took her back to the inn.

Guan Canghai was just going out, and he saw them at once, and came to greet them, "You are back. I have a good news and a bad news for you, which one do you want to hear first?"

Xue Huang raised an eyebrow, "Good news."

"The good news is that Senior Lou Sheng will not challenge you to a duel for the time being. He has already left. The bad news is that he plans to go directly to Shuanglin City to challenge you in a year."

"Let him be." Xue Huang felt speechless, but his departure was indeed good news. At least she wouldn't have to fight with him again in the short term.

Mo Yunchen held Xue Huang's hand and pulled her upstairs, "Go back and rest. You don't have to worry about this person."

Xue Huang didn't say anything and followed him back to the room.

She didn't know whether it was because of the hot weather or the false pregnancy, but she felt extremely sleepy and fell asleep while leaning on the deck chair.

Mo Yunchen took out a thin blanket and covered her with it. "Although this is a fake pregnancy, everything is the same as if you were pregnant. You should still take care of your body."

"Since you've figured out that it's a fake pregnancy, do you know why this happened? Guan Canghai said I might have eaten some special herbs by mistake, but I don't remember."

"It should be related to the wild fruits you ate in Lubai Mountain."

“Isn’t that just an ordinary wild fruit?”

"Indeed, that fruit is actually a kind of medicinal material, called Red Lantern, but it usually grows with a companion plant called Ginseng. The fruit it produces is very similar to it, and you can't tell the difference without careful observation. After taking this fruit, it will form fetal energy in the body, just like being pregnant."

Xue Huang carefully recalled the handful of fruit that Yao Xiaodie gave her. It seemed that there was indeed one fruit that tasted different from the others, but she thought it was not ripe and did not take it seriously.

This time I was really screwed by it.

Xue Huang was depressed, "Is there no antidote?"

Mo Yunchen shook his head, "Don't worry, this kind of pregnancy will disappear in about half a month. You have a cold syndrome, so it's not easy for you to take abortion medicine. Just be patient and wait."

"Forget it. This will save me some trouble. At least Lou Sheng won't chase me to fight."

"Calm down?" Mo Yunchen looked at her with a half-smile, "Don't you want to kill me anymore?"

Xue Huang said nothing and rolled her eyes.

Mo Yunchen was silent for a moment, and said: "This matter ends here, just pretend it never happened."

After waiting for a while and not hearing her answer, he turned around and found that she had fallen asleep.

He smiled helplessly, covered her with the quilt, and turned to leave.

Xue Huang had seen pregnant women suffering from morning sickness before, but she never expected that her fake pregnancy would cause such a big reaction.

From the initial nausea and retching, it has turned into vomiting to death now.

I had no strength at all and no appetite, so much so that I ended up retching.

She lay at the head of the bed, holding the spittoon, feeling like she was about to vomit out her bile.

Fortunately, Mo Yunchen made her a few bowls of medicine, and she felt a little better.

When feeding medicine one time, he inexplicably said, "If this child is real, it doesn't seem to be a bad thing."

Xue Huang was dizzy from vomiting at the time, and didn't hear his words clearly. She just replied randomly, "You're not the one who suffered, so of course you think it's okay... um... it's really... unlucky... it would have been fine if I hadn't gone to Lubai Villa to join in the fun... um... it's all your fault..."

Mo Yunchen patted her back lightly and said calmly, "If you weren't greedy, you wouldn't have this trouble."

"You deserve it." Xue Huang said unhappily.

"Drink this."

Xue Huang endured the bitterness and drank it in one breath. Gradually, she felt less uncomfortable and fell into a deep sleep again.

After a few days of torment, she finally managed to get through it.

All in all, they had already stayed in this inn for five or six days, and had already distanced themselves from the rest of the team.

So it was not suitable to delay any longer, and it was really boring to stay in the room every day, so Xuehuang decided to set off.

Mo Yunchen didn't say anything and prepared to take her on the road.

Before leaving, Xue Huang said goodbye to Guan Canghai.

"You're leaving so soon?" Guan Canghai was a little surprised. "Where are you going?"

"Shuanglin City." Xuehuang said.

"Going home?"

Xue Huang was stunned and did not answer.

When Mo Yunchen heard that word, he felt something strange in his heart.

He had been stationed in the North for many years and had walked this road many times, but only at this moment did he no longer feel lonely on the road ahead.

Shuanglin City is his base, and it turns out it can also be his home.

He held Xue Huang's hand and said, "Yes, it's time to go home."

Xue Huang did not struggle, nor did she deny. Her cold eyes were filled with indifference, yet she seemed to be hiding something and seemed very mysterious.

Guan Canghai looked at her curiously. He always felt that the woman in front of him seemed free and sincere, but there seemed to be something unspeakable hidden in her heart.

"It's time for me to leave," Guan Canghai suppressed his curiosity, "Thank you for your introduction, young lady. I have decided to go visit the ghost doctor. Is it too late?"

"Just go to Shangyang City with Doctor Guan, and someone will take you to see him," Xue Huang said.

"Well, you two, the journey is long, I hope to see you again in the future."

"Wait a minute." Xue Huang broke free from Mo Yunchen's hand and pulled Guan Canghai aside. "Doctor Guan, can I ask you a favor?"

"You said."

"Actually, I'm not pregnant. As you said, I accidentally ate the wild fruit on the mountain."

"That's it."

"But Lou Sheng doesn't know. If you meet him again, please keep it a secret for me. After all, I don't want to fight him for the time being. If my master asks, you'd better tell the truth."

"No problem." Guan Canghai agreed readily without thinking much about it. Little did he know that Xue Huang's purpose was just that she didn't want him to say anything nonsense when he met Wei Yunzhou and the others.

"Thank you very much, and goodbye."

After saying goodbye to Guan Canghai formally, Xue Huang and Mo Yunchen also set out on their journey northward.

Considering Xue Huang's physical condition, Mo Yunchen insisted on slowing down and sent a message to Duan Yun in advance, asking him to send someone back to pick her up.

So before it got dark, we met the carriage that was coming to pick us up.

Xue Huang didn't want to ride a bumpy ride, so she chose to ride a horse.

In the evening, the team stopped to rest.

Xue Huang stood by the river and saw the huge snow-capped mountain on the opposite bank.

It just stands there, out of tune with the vibrant green trees and red flowers.

Due to its unique location, the snow never melts all year round, but avalanches often occur.

Therefore, passers-by and government officials had long since opened up a new road to avoid the snow mountain.

But she remembered that mountain. It was where Gu Qinglan was buried in her previous life.

Thinking of that scene, Xue Huang trembled unconsciously. She actually saw the snow mountain again.

She continued walking along the road. On the endless plain, there was a tree that was very conspicuous and familiar.

It was a very thick willow tree, with countless branches and leaves hanging down like a waterfall.

“The tree is still here,” she sighed.

Xuehuang stood under the tree. She remembered this place.